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Tag Archives: Austrian Wine
Sisters Are Doin’ It at Weingut Renner
Our trip to visit Rennersistas at Gols began very early with a forty-five minute train ride from Vienna Hauptbahnhof to Neusiedl-am-See, and an eleven kilometre cycle into the wind. It made us slightly late and very hot for our 10.30 appointment, but … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Austria, Austrian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Vienna, Wine, Wine Tastings, Wine Travel
Tagged Austrian Natural Wine, Austrian Wine, Austrian Wine Tourism, Burgenland, Claus Preisinger Gols, Gols, Mole West, Neusiedl-am-See, Neusiedlersee on a bike, Renner Pannobile, Rennersistas, Stefanie Renner, Tasting at Rennersistas, Waiting for Tom 2017, Weingut Renner
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Austria at the IOD
As with the Australia Day Tasting the other week, I’d not been to the annual Advantage Austria London tasting for a couple of years, but the 2018 event seemed to suggest a few of the newer, exciting, producers were attending alongside the … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Neusiedlersee, Rust, Vienna, Wachau, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger, Wine Tastings
Tagged Advantage Austria Tasting, Arnold Holzer, Austria, Austrian Wine, Bernhard Ott, Blaufränkisch, Burgenland, Ebner-Ebenauer, Emmerich Knoll Wachau, Ernst Triebaumer, Eschenhof Holzer, Gerhard Kracher, Gruner Veltliner, Gunter & Regina Triebaumer, Herbert Tiebaumer, Leth Fels am Wagram, Marion Ebner, Martin Diwald, Neusiedlersee, Nikolaihof Wachau, Poysdorf, Roter Veltliner, Rust, Wagram, Weinhof Waldschutz, Weinviertel, Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger Vienna
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Gut Oggau Family Reunion
Many family reunions are fraught with tension, petty jealousies and conflict under the surface. This particular family reunion was the happiest I have ever attended. Gut Oggau is probably known to many who will read this article, but for those … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged 2016 Vintage in Burgenland, Austrian Wine, Biodynamics in Austria, Brutal Wine Series, Burgenland, Dynamic Vines, Eduard Tscheppe-Eselböck, Gut Oggau, Gut Oggau Family Reunion 2016, Neusiedlersee, Oggau, Rösler Grape Variety, Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck
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The Emperor’s New Clothes are Real
This is just a quick shout for Newcomer Wines, the Austrian specialist wine merchant who used to be in Shoreditch Boxpark. The emperor in this case is, with typical corny humour, naturally one of the Habsburgs, and whilst in the … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged Andreas Nittnaus, Austrian Wine, Austrian Wine in London, Christian Tschida, Claus Preisinger, Czech Wine, Fed by Water Dalston, Fed by Water Hackney, Fed by Water Vegan Cafe, London Wine Shops, Milan Nestarec, Newcomer Wines, Puszta Libre
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Great Exhibitionists
The Winemakers Club and Carte Blanche Wines got together again at Farringdon Street Vaults for their Winter Portfolio Tasting. Readers of this Blog will know Winemakers very well. Their philosophy is finely stated in the words of founder/owner John Baum: … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic wine, Hungarian Wine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Austrian Wine, Burgenland Wine, Carte Blanche Wines, Christophe Muret, Domaine de L'Horizon Calce, Domaine des Marnes Blanches Jura, Domaine du Mortier, Empriente de Temps, Fabien Jouves, Feudo dei Sanseverino Calabria, Franken Wine, Gino Pedrotti, Grange de L'Oncle Charles, Great Exhibition Tasting, Hegyikalo Eger Hungary, Il Guercio, Jerome Francois, Karim Vionnet Beaujolais, Kiral Yudvar Tokaj, Maestro Terenzio Passito, Mas del Périé Cahors, Meinklang, Meinklang Graupert, Meinklang Konkret, Mouthes le Bihan Duras, Nosiola, Ostheim Alsace Wine, Pamhagen Austria, Riecine, Sean O'Callaghan, Shobbrook Giallo, Shobbrook Seppeltsfield, Sittweg Alsace, Stefan Vetter Franken, Tom Shobbrook, Tommy Field, Tommy Ruff, Trentino Vino Santo, Winemakers Club
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Post Holiday Blues Amelioration
When you’ve been somewhere nice and hot on holiday (see previous post) you really want summer to linger back home, and more or less that’s been the case, barring a few heavy showers. The parasol has been up and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amphora Pinot Grigio, Anton van Klopper, Arnot-Roberts Trousseau, Austrian Beer, Austrian Wine, Basket Range, Batic Slovenia, Bota de Fino 54, Domaine Lucci Vino Rosso, Equipo Navazos, Foradori, Johanneshof Reinisch, Meinklang, Meinklang urkorn-bier, Pacta Connect, Pinot Grigio Fuoripista, Rotgipfler, Slovenian Wine, Thermenregion, Vipava Rose, Vipava Valley
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Of Austria and Ostriches
If you read this Blog regularly you’ll know what I think of Austria – it’s the most exciting wine country in Europe right now. Let’s face it, I’ve probably written that phrase enough times this year for it to have … Continue reading
Raw Part 1 – The Austrians
There were nearly 220 wine producers exhibiting at the Raw Wine Fair this past Sunday/Monday. The Old Truman Brewery, off London’s Brick Lane, is an excellent venue for an event like this, but even so it was necessary to get … Continue reading
My New Austrian Klangers
My introduction to Austrian wine, and the reason I became such a big fan, was the wines of the Danube (Kamptal, Kremstal and above all, Wachau). Producers like Präger, Hirtzberger and Knoll formed a part of my cellar long before … Continue reading
